hayfork

noun

hayfork

noun

Etymology From hay + fork.

1

A tool used for moving hay; a pitchfork.

  • Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances.2007 March 18, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times:

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